US NewsLearjet crash in Philadelphia; Trump plans significant talks. This is what happened in the news overnight
Learjet crash in Philadelphia; Trump plans significant talks. This is what happened in the news overnight
It happened while you were sleeping. Here’s what global agencies reported overnight from Friday to Saturday.
- A Learjet 55 air ambulance crashed on Friday in a residential area of Philadelphia near a shopping center. According to NBC, there were six people on board, but the number of casualties may be higher.
- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday evening that he would soon speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin and that both would "do something significant." However, he did not provide details.
- Trump also announced that he would "absolutely" impose tariffs on goods from the European Union. He added that tariffs on products from Mexico and Canada will include oil and gas, but the tariff rate will be 10% instead of 25%.
- The Trump administration has initiated efforts to dismiss many FBI agents who investigated the president, according to The Washington Post and other media outlets on Friday.
- A significant fragment measuring about 12 miles broke off from the world's most enormous iceberg for the first time. This refers to the iceberg that calved from Antarctica in 1988. It is 50 miles long and has an area of 1,298 square miles. For several decades, it remained stationary, but since December, it has been slowly moving towards the British island of South Georgia, carried by powerful ocean currents. Now, it has "broken off."
- The Swedish prosecutor announced on Friday the release of five men arrested in connection with the shooting of the perpetrator of the Quran arsons, 38-year-old Salwan Momika. The incident occurred on Wednesday evening near Stockholm.
- The police in Tromsø reported on Friday evening that they had completed their investigation of the detained ship suspected of being involved in severing cables between Latvia and Gotland. Investigators found nothing to link the crew and the boat to the incident.
